Lansdale man facing charge in alleged Towamencin pool incident

TOWAMENCIN >> A Lansdale man is facing a misdemeanor providing false identification to law enforcement charge after police said he gave fake information to Towamencin officers investigating a purported trespassing incident at the Towamencin Township Community Pool in June.

According to documents filed in district court, around 1:30 a.m. on June 21, two Towamencin police officers were patrolling in the area of the pool when six males were spotted entering pool property from an adjacent apartment complex. Someone from the group appeared to throw an unknown item toward the pool, then all six men ran away laughing, then entered the pool property again and stood around “having a discussion,” according to police.

At that point, the officers — who noted in a probable cause affidavit that the pool was not open and an after-hours no trespassing sign was posted — made contact with the group “in order to investigate trespassing and possibly criminal mischief.”

The six males were told several times that they were the subjects of an official investigation, the affidavit states.

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None of the individuals had state-issued identification cards on them, police said.

One of the men, later identified as Mehdi Hasan Mollah, 19, “was resistant to our investigation and stood up multiple times after being asked to stay seated,” according to police, who said that Mollah — who initially did not provide his last name — seemed “nervous and extra talkative about how he had done nothing wrong” and stated that “our temporary detainment was (expletive).”

Police said that Mollah, who resides on the 400 block of West 6th Street, gave them a different address as his residence, as well as a false date of birth — subsequent investigation by officers determined the actual information, according to the affidavit.

Mollah is due to appear before District Judge Harold Borek of Lansdale on Sept. 23 via summons to answer to the charge, which is graded as a third-degree misdemeanor.

Towamencin police said they have no information indicating the incident is connected to a vandalism incident at the pool — which occurred sometime between 8 p.m. on July 5 and noon on July 6, according to police — in which broken glass, a traffic cone and a reflector were thrown into two pools at the facility.